Social Media

This Click Brick Tech (CBT) News Category, Social Media, addresses the impact of Social Media in Africa. It seeks to understand, bring to light and tell the story of how social media is being used by Africans in all industries and segments of their lives.

‘Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world’

Harry Von Zell

Despite having so many things separating us, humans happen to have so much in common. If not music, then culture and if not culture then history. One thing that has stayed on eternal from our childhood is something that isn’t so flashy and doesn’t seem to fit into our modern 21st century. This space and medium that has been the greatest informer and entertainer at the same time without having a face to see, it just needed you to listen; and listen we did. If they honestly thought it was dead then they have another thing coming. Radio isn’t dying, to be honest, it is making a very decent living in its home here with humans.

Almost everyone obsesses over their looks, whether it be the volume or texture of their hair, the colour and smoothness of their skin, their height and weight, and even the brightness of their smiles. After food and water, the next most important thing for a lot of people is their appearance.

The scene that is projected in my mind was when Anakin before he joined the Dark side and became Darth Vader ultimately, was found on a planet and was into Podracing. Now in Star Wars, Podracing was a dangerous racing sport on planets such as Malastare and Tatooine. Racers could perform multiple laps on a particular race track, moving at dangerous and, at times, deadly speeds. The races were performed using craft known as Podracers or pods, which were small, one-man craft propelled by large engines.